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Forgot everything | |
2018.02.20 21:11:02 CET | |
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Yesterday evening and this morning I had a very uncomfortable | |
situation. After getting home from work, my blood pressure dropped | |
probably because I had not eaten well during the day. Besides the | |
usual symptoms of low blood pressure, this time I had verbal aphas | |
During the aphasia episode, I could think what I would like to say | |
had ideas, but I could not recall the words to say anything. I for | |
all words. I had one other episode like this when I was in my youn | |
teens and it was just as terrifying. I took some medication, went | |
bed and slept. | |
This morning I woke up much better and able to speak. When to my h | |
office, start my work day, but I could not recall many things. I | |
couldn't remember what laptop was mine, what was my work machine, | |
what my passwords were (my personal password, my work password, my | |
password manager key). Amnesia. I tried muscle memory and I could | |
recall parts of my password manager key, but I couldn't remember i | |
or type it. | |
Spent the morning looking for a hard-copy of my passwords, but I a | |
could not remember where I had placed it. After hours of | |
contemplating what it would be to start my digital life from zero, | |
had already accepted that reality. | |
Then, suddenly, it all came back to me. Out of the blue. | |
My reliability engineer mindset went overdrive to improve all my | |
procedure to handle this failure scenario and I've already | |
implemented changes. I'm feeling much safer now, but tomorrow I | |
have a doctor appointment to check my brain out. |